It’s the thought that counts. For good AND ill. Start him with something small. Folding socks. Wait, he’d have to match them first. With Earl, It could easily spiral out of control.
That is very similar to what I did when I was 10 to get out of washing the dishes. I was sooo clumsy, I broke a few glasses, a couple of bowels and in just a couple of weeks my mother told me to stop washing the dishes. I thought vacuuming was much easier than washing dishes
My wife doesn’t like the way I fold the towels even though I do it the same way she does. So, I simply stopped doing it since she was unfolding and redoing them herself anyway. But then she also is a stickler that the corners of two stapled papers have to be exactly lined up so probably some OCD there.
The husband of a friend of my wife tried this. Anything he didn’t want to do, he made a point of doing incompetently so that his wife had to redo it. He thought he was so smart because she never asked him to do those tasks again. He was completely blindsided when she filed for divorce.
Erse IS better almost 2 years ago
Earl has her trained!
Templo S.U.D. almost 2 years ago
Can Earl do anything right without Opal scolding him?
stairsteppublishing almost 2 years ago
Neatly folding seems to be a woman’s thing – most of the time.
The dude from FL (not bragging) Premium Member almost 2 years ago
That’s how you do a fitted bottom sheet…right?
adunano367 almost 2 years ago
Incompetence; The greatest labor-saving device.
profbob almost 2 years ago
Earl should have offered to ‘help’ Opal with folding the laundry.
Cpeckbourlioux almost 2 years ago
Well played, Earl.
KA7DRE Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Probably a good thing Opal thought that out before answering Earl.
PraiseofFolly almost 2 years ago
Under that grizzled white mustache is a sly, knowing grin.
iggyman almost 2 years ago
Panel 3 is how I fold fitted sheets!
eced52 almost 2 years ago
He should buy one of those t-shirt folding boards, and show her how good you can fold them.
enigmamz almost 2 years ago
At least he offered.
Of course, it’s easy to offer when you know you’ll turned down, but still, it counts!
The Reader Premium Member almost 2 years ago
You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em.
cubswin2016 almost 2 years ago
It looks to me that Earl is borrowing one of Ray Barone’s tricks.
juicebruce almost 2 years ago
Time for a lesson in folding ;-)
Darryl Heine almost 2 years ago
He doesn’t know how to fold clothes right!
goboboyd almost 2 years ago
It’s the thought that counts. For good AND ill. Start him with something small. Folding socks. Wait, he’d have to match them first. With Earl, It could easily spiral out of control.
Chris almost 2 years ago
she knows you too well there Earl.
Gen.Flashman almost 2 years ago
Have they ever disclosed what his occupation was before he retired?
rhpii almost 2 years ago
I fold all the laundry at our house, why? because I’m better at it and I don’t leave it sitting around in baskets for several days.
rickmac1937 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
They’re never happy Earl
ANIMAL almost 2 years ago
IT WORKED..!!!!!! – All those years of “fail conditioning” paid OFF..!!!!
Zebrastripes almost 2 years ago
Don’t say I didn’t offer….but everyone has their own way…
walstib Premium Member almost 2 years ago
My wife folds bath towels end to end, and then across. So then I need to refold them lengthwise to hang them up.
morningglory73 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
It’s a trick Opal, he really has no intention of folding the laundry. There must be a word for such treachery.
e.groves almost 2 years ago
The only clothes I have to fold are my skivvies. Everything else goes on a hanger.
brick10 almost 2 years ago
Offer made, and offer declined. Next are complaining about Earl never helping out.
Diat60 almost 2 years ago
The whole point of folding clothes is that you don’t have to IRON so many of them! Especially tees, jeans and fitted sheets.
Snuffles [Previously Helikitty] almost 2 years ago
And then she’s going to get mad at him for not helping her fold.
Yardley701 almost 2 years ago
Earl folds the clothes as my husband does, he just takes it out of the dryer and throws them on the bed, getting everything nice and wrinkled.
timbob2313 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
That is very similar to what I did when I was 10 to get out of washing the dishes. I was sooo clumsy, I broke a few glasses, a couple of bowels and in just a couple of weeks my mother told me to stop washing the dishes. I thought vacuuming was much easier than washing dishes
MuddyUSA Premium Member almost 2 years ago
It is that simple!
zeexenon almost 2 years ago
Never have I ever offered that …. till maybe after I saw how Sheldon did it.
sobrown51 almost 2 years ago
My wife doesn’t like the way I fold the towels even though I do it the same way she does. So, I simply stopped doing it since she was unfolding and redoing them herself anyway. But then she also is a stickler that the corners of two stapled papers have to be exactly lined up so probably some OCD there.
dlaemmerhirt999 almost 2 years ago
Funny! I, the 35 year old physically disabled son, do 99% of the folding!
The Orange Mailman almost 2 years ago
morningglory73 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
It’s an old ruse, offer to help then do such a bad job you’ll never be asked to do anything again.
heathcliff2 almost 2 years ago
Often true. Not that wrinkle, but a different wrinkle is better.
cuzinron47 almost 2 years ago
You can start with the fitted sheets, that should keep him busy for awhile.
kab2rb almost 2 years ago
Opal knows Earl too well.
kathleenhicks62 almost 2 years ago
I finally gave up and leave my husband to fold his own clothes.
Ed The Red Premium Member almost 2 years ago
The husband of a friend of my wife tried this. Anything he didn’t want to do, he made a point of doing incompetently so that his wife had to redo it. He thought he was so smart because she never asked him to do those tasks again. He was completely blindsided when she filed for divorce.
edeloriea14 almost 2 years ago
Earl would leave the laundry in an untidy heap.